Kerala Independent MP Innocent Vareed Thekkethala on Wednesday created a furore after saying that casting couch doesn't exists in the Malayalam film industry and blamed the "bad women” for any such situation.

Posters have sprung up in various parts of Wadakancherry in Kerala's Thrissur district against veteran Malayalam actor KPAC Lalitha, who is likely to be the CPI(M) Independent candidate from the constituency in the May 16 Assembly polls.

After scorching the silver screen for more than three decades, superstar Mohanlal is treading into the world of music. He has made it official that his music band would be named Lalisom - The Lal Effect.

More than 700 artistes from the Malayalam film industry will be taking part in various programmes lined up for the Malayalam film festival that starts tomorrow as part of the celebrations of 100 years of Indian Cinema here.

Malayalam film industry made a turnaround in 2012 with an annual investment of about Rs 350 crore and release of 128 movies in contrast to sequential flops and losses that crippled the industry in the last few years.

Fahad Fazil, the latest heartthrob in the Malayalam film industry, has played down his disastrous debut despite being launched by his illustrious father Fazil in 2001, saying the failure was his and not that of his father.

First Bollywood and now the Malayalam film industry. Women are making inroads in the male-dominated territory of filmmaking, quitting cushy jobs and breaking away from their settled lives to wield the megaphone.